Motivational Quotes

Action

The common conception is that motivation leads to action, but the reverse is true -- action precedes motivation. You have to prime the pump and get the juice flowing, which motivates you to work on your goals. Getting momentum going is the most difficult part of the job, and often taking the first step is enough to prompt you to make the best of your day.

- Mckain, Robert J.

Best Quotes about Action

1.

All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man's actions.

Einstein, Albert

2.

Do it this very moment, Don't put it off, There's no use in doing a kindness, if you do it a day too late.

3.

People may doubt what you say, but they will believe what you do.

Cass, Lewis

4.

It is no use trying to sum people up. One must follow hints, not exactly what is said, nor yet entirely what is done.

Woolf, Virginia

5.

The only way you can bring in the harvest in the fall is to plant in the spring, and to water, weed, fertilize in the summer

6.

Effective action is always unjust.

Anouilh, Jean

7.

You don't always win your battles, but it's good to know you fought.

Holmes, Marjorie

8.

If you go on working with the light available, you will meet your Master, as he himself will be seeking you.

Maharshi, Ramana

9.

Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps.

Schmidt, Helmut

10.

Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and activity of man's nature.

South, Bishop Robert

11.

We are taught by great actions that the universe is the property of every individual in it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

12.

In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

Char, Rene

13.

He who has no taste for order, will be often wrong in his judgment, and seldom considerate or conscientious in his actions.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

14.

Many are called but few get up.

Herford, Oliver

15.

We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.

Aristotle

16.

As one acts and conducts himself, so does he become. The doer of good becomes good. The doer of evil becomes evil. One becomes virtuous by virtuous action, bad by bad action.

Upanishads, Veda

17.

Take the first step, and your mind will mobilize all its forces to your aid. But the first essential is that you begin. Once the battle is startled, all that is within and without you will come to your assistance.

Collier, Robert

18.

Action makes more fortune than caution.

Clapiers, Luc De

19.

Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.

Fichte, Johann G.

20.

Man who stand on hill with mouth open will wait long time for roast duck to drop in.

Confucius

21.

Before you can do something you must first be something.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

22.

Just as a flower which seems beautiful and has color but no perfume, so are the fruitless words of the man who speaks them but does them not.

Dhammapada

23.

A man who waits to believe in action before acting is anything you like, but he's not a man of action.. You must act as you breathe.

Clemenceau, Georges

24.

What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

25.

Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.

Mother Teresa

26.

Act, don't react!

27.

When all is said the greatest action is to limit and isolate one's self.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

28.

The discipline of writing something down is the first step toward making it happen.

Iacocca, Lee

29.

It is not good enough for things to be planned -- they still have to be done; for the intention to become a reality, energy has to be launched into operation.

Khan, Pir Vilayat

30.

A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.

Angelou, Maya

31.

Action is the real measure of intelligence.

Hill, Napoleon

32.

It's better to waste one's youth than to do nothing with it at all.

Courteline, Georges

33.

As people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears.

Lu Xun

34.

Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

35.

A sedentary life is the real sin against the Holy Spirit. Only those thoughts that come by walking have any value.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

36.

The greatest potential for control tends to exist at the point where action takes place.

Allen, Loius A.

37.

There is no use trying, said Alice; one can't believe impossible things. I dare say you haven't had much practice, said the Queen. When I was your age, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

Carroll, Lewis

38.

Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.

Rowan, Carl

39.

Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out.

Proverb, Italian

40.

The ancestor of every action is thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

41.

The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river.

Perot, H. Ross

42.

Some people forget to plant in the spring, idle away the summer hours and then expect to reap in the fall.

43.

Only the actions of the just smell sweet and blossom in the dust.

Shirley, James

44.

Do not wait; the time will never be just right. Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.

Hill, Napoleon

45.

The journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

Proverb, Chinese

46.

So what do we do? Anything. Something. So long as we just don't sit there. If we screw it up, start over. Try something else. If we wait until we've satisfied all the uncertainties, it may be too late.

Iacocca, Lee

47.

Speak out in acts; the time for words has passed, and only deeds will suffice.

Whittier, John Greenleaf

48.

An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox.

Proverb, Mexican

49.

If you stand still long enough, you'll get stuck

Hasselhoff, David

50.

Take action in order to move toward your goals.